Whitsunday's We arrived off the 12 hour bus journey from Cairn's to Airlee beach. Once again we arrived knackered and checked into Magnum's our hostel for one night before we headed off for our sailing trip around the Whitsunday Islands. Unable to check in till 2pm we headed for the huge lagoon which was on the sea front, similar to that in Cairn's again due to the jelly fish in the water's off the Queensland coast. The Lagoon's are really nice and not quite...

Byron Bay After leaving Harvey Bay where we spent Christmas with Anne & Poz, we made our way down to the seaside town of Byron Bay. As it was just after Christmas the place was bustling with people and first impressions were that it was a lovely little town. Our first day we arrived off the Greyhound and the weather was not that great as it was raining (What's it with the weather in Australia??? No one told us they had rain in summer!) and as we arrived ea...

Cairns So after travelling through Asia for a fantastic two and a half months it was finally onto Australia. We touched down into Cairns airport which was really quite small, and not really what we were expecting. We had already booked our accommodation so off the bus we headed for the backpackers hostel Gilligan's. We booked it as we thought it had everything - Gym, Bar, Disco, Huge swimming pool and even a free evening meal. However we got to the front desk a...

Sun, sea, sand, surfing, shopping and sundae's in Bali... After a week of non stop sightseeing, we were looking forward to some sun, sea and sand in Bali. Having convinced Rob and Louisa to amend their travelling itinery to incorporate Bali, we were fortunate in that they arrived there a few hours before us and had come up trumps in sorting us all out accomodation. For £7 each a night we stayed in a really nice hotel called Simpang Inn which was right in the h...

We arrived into Singapore late afternoon to some serious heat and got dropped off at the edge of the city not too far from where we were staying, or so we thought. We ended up once again walking with our heavy backpacks for a good 40 sweaty minutes trying to find our hostel. We eventually managed to find it and it was a really nice hostel, The Mitraa and the first of which that didn't have an en suite bathroom, although we still managed to get a private room and ...